Party
Planning - Ideas for Party Plan Games
Party Plan Games for your direct sales party
The most productive and popular time for a Party Plan party tends
to be on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and during 7pm to 9.30pm.
Arrange your seating in a circle or position where your guests can
easily talk to each other, and place nibbles and drinks nearby. Getting
your guests to interact, get to know each other and feel relaxed and
comfortable is important. Lots of successful Party planners organise
a few simple games to break the ice at a party.
It's up to you to judge your particular group as to whether they
are the type of people who will enjoy physical games, or prefer to
remain seated and play a quiz or simple game. It's important to get
this right as otherwise your guests can either be bored or embarrassed
if you get it wrong!
When you give your demonstration, don't make it too long, you need
to keep the customers' attention - so make it interesting and informative...and
fun! Remember to take any extras you may need to enhance your products'
appearance, such as : mirrors for guests to see themselves wearing
your product, velvet or satin cloth to display your jewellery, tablecloths
if you are selling food stuff or kitchenware. Presentation makes all
the difference, think about how shops present their products in the
window display and inside on the counters.
Try and make taking your orders quick and easy, and make sure you
inform your customer about the time their order will take and arrange
their collection. If this all goes smoothly the customer is far more
likely to give you a repeat order.
Make sure you present your host with their gift in front of the guests,
so they will be encouraged to become hosts. At the end of the party
is the best time to ask for more parties, as hopefully everyone has
just had a great time. This is an important part of the party plan,
as in no time at all you can be holding several parties a week, if
your events go well.
Remember - You are planning a sales
party to show off your products and hopefully to take lots of orders.
As a party plan agent, or representative for one
of the many successful direct sales companies that sell goods via
home parties, you want to make your party fun and interesting. You
want the people who come to your party to have a great time and recommend
you to all their friends, and so grow your selling opportunities for
the next party.
Breaking the ice by playing party plan games is a well known and successful
way to make your direct sales party go well.
Party games help your guests to mix and get to know
each other, and this encourages a friendly and relaxed atmosphere,
especially if you add a glass or two of wine to the equation. This
is ideal preparation before your product demonstration and subsequent
orders.
Here are some of the most popular party plan games that have been
tried and tested.
Party Plan Games
When your guests arrive it is a good idea to welcome them and give them
a raffle ticket. Explain that they are now in with the chance to win a
prize
at the end of the evening (one of your products is a good choice). Most
people will now be more likely to stay until the raffle is drawn.
It is generally best to start off with a simple pen and pencil game, where
your guests are seated. Getting your guests to interact and feel relaxed
and comfortable is a good start.
 Name
that Tune Game
You will need paper and pencils, CD player or ipod
This needs some preparation before your party. Create a songlist, preferably
using music that links to your product, i.e cookware Party Plan agents
could use songs with food or drink connections, beauty agents could
choose songs such as 'beautiful girl'. You don't have to stick to only
connected tunes, and with some products it will be limited, but it is
a good way to gently start the sales connection.
Play the first 5 -10 seconds of the songs and ask your guests to write
down the name of the tune, or you can make it more difficult by asking
for the artist too. Make sure you clearly call out the number of each
intro as you play it. Your guests may want to hear it again, so be prepared
to play it again if requested. Keep the number of songs to around 10
-15, as with more than that your guests may lose interest.
Get everyone to swap papers, and as you read out the answers and play
a longer section of the song, get your guests to mark each others answers.
The person with the most points wins. Award a small fun prize.
Truth or Lie Game
Make two cards with the words 'Truth' and 'Lie' on them.
Somebody will need to keep score. Each guest is asked to tell everyone
three facts about themselves - two should be true and one a lie. If
the others guess incorrectly then the person revealing the 'facts' gets
a point. They can hold up the card revealing the answer. If they fail
to lie successfully then the person spotting this gains a point.The
person with the most points wins a prize.
Pass the Party Gift Game
You will need a wrapped gift, a CD player or ipod, and a list of different
descriptions that could apply to your guests.
This is like the children's game 'pass the parcel', but when the music
stops you don't unwrap any layers, instead your guests just pass it
to the person who fits the description. Get your guests to pass the
wrapped gift to each other as the music plays, then when you stop the
music read out a line such as the following:
Pass to the tallest; the shortest; the person with green eyes; the person
married the longest; the person married the shortest; the person with
the smallest feet; the person with the longest hair; the person with
the most buttons, largest earrings, etc.
Then continue the music and repeat the action. Don't make the descriptions
too personal and try to make sure everyone gets involved. Finish with
a non-personal description, such as 'pass to the fourth person on your
right' and make sure you turn your back to your guests, so you cannot
be accused of favouritism! The winner unwraps and keeps the gift.
Springtime Flowers Game
 You
will need pencils and paper
Get everybody to write the word 'SPRINGTIME' down
the length of their paper. Then ask them to write as many different
names of flowers as they can think of. The winner is the one who guesses
the most.
Here are some examples:
S - snowdrop, sweet pea
P - petunia, primrose, primula, peony
R - rose, rhododendron
I - iris
N - nasturtium
G - geranium, gladioli
T - tulip
I - impatiens
M - marigold,
E - edelweiss, evening primrose
You could try naming trees instead or anything you can think of. Change
the word to reflect the time of the year i.e Autumn, Halloween, etc.
Try different foods, sweets, cosmetics - anything goes! A small potted
plant is a nice prize for this game.
It's up to you to decide whether your guests are likely to enjoy moving
on to physical games, or whether they would prefer to remain seated
and just play a simple quiz or word game. Try to get this right, otherwise
your guests can become bored, or embarrassed if you get it wrong!
 Burst
the Balloon Game
You will need plenty of balloons in two different colours. When inflating
the balloons it makes them easier to pop if you slightly over-inflate,
otherwise the game can take a long time to complete!
Divide your party into two equal groups. Place two piles of inflated
balloons at the opposite end of the room to your teams. Shout 'GO' and
a member from each team must run and grab a balloon and pop it - but
only by sitting on it! Once this task is completed then they must return
to their team, then the next person repeats the task.
The first team to burst all their balloons wins. Give all of the team
a chocolate or sweet as a prize.
As an extra, when you are blowing up the balloons you can slip a piece
of paper saying 'You have won!' inside two of the balloons (one in each
colour). Give a small prize.
When you are handing out pens/pencils and paper for your orders, make
sure that you have numbered your pens/pencils and tell your customers
to mark the number on their order form. Then when you finish get the
host to choose one of the pens (as in a raffle) and then award a small
prize. It's a good way to ensure that you get all your pens/pencils
back!
Chocolate Feast Game
 You
will need several bars of chocolate, an assortment of clothes to put
on - a hat, scarf and gloves at least, knives and forks, dice
Wrap up a couple of bars of chocolate in several layers of paper and
place plenty of knives and forks nearby. Then place some dressing up
clothes - woolly hat, scarf and gloves at least, nearby. Begin by rolling
the dice - the first one to get a double has to dress up in the clothes
as quickly as possible, and then attempt to eat the chocolate by only
using the knife and fork. The rest of the players continue throwing
the dice until somebody else gets a double, and then they take over
the task. The winner is the person who finishes the last piece of chocolate.
This party game can be varied by using chopsticks to try to eat small
round candy or sweets, instead of chocolate.
Try to award something other than a chocolate treat as the prize, as
the contestants may well have consumed enough chocolate!
Don't be misled by claims that high earnings are easily achieved
with party plans. Personal financial investment may be required.
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